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Unsung pioneers of high tech

Original post made
on Jan 31, 2009

Imagine if the first images of African-Americans that flashed in Palo Altans' minds were of venture capitalists and high-tech geniuses. That view would be accurate — and long overdue, according to historian and journalist John William Templeton.

Posted by Dale Austin Jenkins
a resident of Midtown
on Jun 20, 2010 at 8:52 pm

Our family, with the Harrisons, Gees, Idas, Nakatas), along with the other families on and around Lawrence Lane, were among the first Non-Caucasion (except for the Stannards, Duvenecks, Lelers, and others great folks) to break the color line in 1952-53 Palo Alto. Check the archives of the PA Times for a Saturday article with us kids on a rocking horse, and you will add to the knowledge base.